People with Muscular Dystrophy (MD) and certain other muscular and nervous system disorders lose their gross motor control while retaining fine motor control. The result is that they lose the ability to move their wrists and arms, and therefore their ...

In this demonstration, we show how technology can improve the lives of people with disabilities, specifically by increasing their independence by giving them control over a few appliances in the home. The technical approach demonstrated here is based ...

This paper describes design elements and field test results for an icon-driven, cognitively accessible personal activity scheduling application for use by individuals with disabilities and their assistants. Results showed that users with significant ...

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Most Thai people like to purchase food at local markets; however, research studies on accessibility to local markets by people with disabilities were still limited. The objective of this study was to develop a prototype of an accessible market for people ...

Voice interfaces can be used to meet some accessibility requirements for physically disabled users, but only if they address inherent usability problems, namely, the trade-off between user efficiency and ambiguity handling. This paper explores usability ...

As new features have been added to cellular phones, their user interfaces have become increasingly complex, making it difficult for people with cognitive or visual impairments to use them. This paper describes the development and preliminary testing ...

Smart phone technology is evolving to become more open to application developers. This trend is opening the way to development of personalized assistive technologies, location-aware services, and enhanced person-to-person communications. This paper presents ...

The Music Cre8tor is an interactive music composition system controlled by motion sensors specifically designed for children with disabilities although not exclusively for this population. The player(s) of the Music Cre8tor can either hold or attach ...

The accessible information and communications technologies (ICT) design community has made compelling arguments about the business benefits available to companies who design their products and services to be accessible to people with disabilities. The ...

This research focuses on characterizing visually impaired computer users performance on graphical user interfaces by linking clinical assessments of low vision with visual icon identification. This was accomplished by evaluating user performance ...

Tim Berners-Lee claimed in 2001 that “the power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect”. A considerable amount of work has been done to make the web accessible to those with sensory ...

In this paper, we have made an extensive study of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques like ensemble of classifiers and feature selection for the identification of students with learning disabilities. The experimental results show that our best method, ...

Due to the implicit characteristics of learning disabilities (LDs), the identification or diagnosis of students with LDs has long been a difficult issue. In this study, we apply rough set theory (RST), which may produce meaningful explanations or rules, ...

This paper introduces a methodology to improve the accessibility of websites with the use of free so-called automatic tools. The methodology has three iterative phases, namely assessing a website against accessibility guidelines, user testing and creating ...

This paper presents EasyVoice, a system that integrates voice synthesis with Skype. EasyVoice allows a person with voice disabilities to talk with another person located anywhere in the world, removing an important obstacle that affects these people ...